After 74 days, 3,445 visits and countless potential overdoses avoided, Overdose Prevention Ottawa says it's dismantling its supervised drug injection tent and leaving Raphael Brunet Park. The announcement came Tuesday, the same day a supervised injection trailer behind Shepherds of Good Hope began receiving clients one block away from the tent site. - Statement by Overdose Prevention OttawaThe tent site appeared weeks before an interim site opened in a city-run clinic on Clarence Street. But unlike that site, and the trailer at Shepherds of Good Hope, the tent site never received an exemption from Health Canada to operate, and was therefore deemed illegal. Nevertheless, despite calls by the mayor, the area's city councillor, the police chief and some neighbours to shut down, the tent site remained defiant.

Source: CBC News November 07, 2017 21:56 UTC